President Trump will sign two new executive orders Monday that forbid transgenders from serving in the Armed Forces and outlaw all vestiges of DEI inside the Defense and Homeland Security Departments. 

According to an exclusive in the New York Post, Trump had already revoked Biden's 2021 order that permitted, some would say encouraged, transgenders in the military. The transgender order will cite physical and psychological reasons for banning transgenders.

They lay out military standards on pronouns and gender identity and directly prohibit thousands of transgender service members from the military, citing issues with mental and physical readiness.

The Department of Defense is directed to make and implement the policy after Trump signs the order.

“Unit cohesion requires high levels of integrity and stability among service members,” a White House document previewing the order on transgender soldiers reads.

There can be “no accommodation for anything less than resilience, strength, and the ability to withstand extraordinary physical demands,” it says.

“Individuals who are unable to meet these requirements are unable to serve in the military. This has been the case for decades,” the document says.

“It can take a minimum of 12 months for an individual to complete treatments after transition surgery, which often involves the use of heavy narcotics. During this period, they are not physically capable of meeting military readiness requirements and require ongoing medical care. This is not conducive for deployment or other readiness requirements.”

As I've pointed out repeatedly, the carve-out — if I can be allowed to use that expression in the context of transgenderism — for transgender servicemembers runs contrary to decades of Defense policy. A soldier can't enlist with braces because they require orthodontic care, which is uncommon at military dental facilities, and that limits their employability. A soldier, when I served, was not allowed to get braces. As an IG, I once helped a soldier who needed his jaw reconstructed after being medically discharged because the only place he could get follow-up treatments was in the Military District of Washington. 

Allowing people who need drug regimens and specialized medical care to remain in the military is beyond stupid. The idea of allowing people swilling a hormone cocktail every day access to lethal weaponry is incomprehensible when using antidepressants can disqualify a man or woman from enlisting.

The next part is great.

Trump’s latest EO on transgender people in the military also directs Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ban the “use of invented and identification-based pronouns” in the armed forces; prohibit biological males and females from sleeping, changing and using bathing facilities intended for the opposite sex; and “update all Department of Defense medical standards to ensure they prioritize readiness and lethality.”

This order will make it much more interesting for women to attend Ranger School, among other schools. It could conceivably force women out of combat arms. Killing the pronouns is just a "chef's kiss."

The second DEI order piggybacks on the initial order that caused so much excitement over the weekend; see The Air Force Seems to Have Decided to Use Malicious Compliance to Fight Trump's DEI Order, SecDef Hegseth Makes DEI Rules Crystal Clear but Does Anyone Care?, and Pete Hegseth Stamps Out One USAF DEI Mutiny but Others Await.

This one, however, specifically targets the military academies.

The order will ban all bureaucratic bodies dedicated to DEI in the military — and will direct Hegseth and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to review all academic curricula in US service academies to flush them of “radical DEI and gender ideologies."

It also renders one federal court decision moot for the remainder of Trump's term: 'Matter of National Security': Federal Judge Upholds Racial Preferences in US Naval Academy Admissions – RedState.

These orders are absolutely necessary, even though they will make Pete Hegseth's and Kristi Noem's jobs infinitely more interesting. We need to root out this cultural corruption fast and ruthlessly. For now, Trump has definitely shown he is up to the task.